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Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2015 - in English

Parallel Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2015

Parallel report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for the eighth examination of the Government of Denmark.

The report contains recommendations to the Danish Government and the Greenlandic Government on the strengthening of the national human rights protection within the scope of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

This report consists of:

  • Part 1 deals with the general obligations of States parties and covers: Updated Danish Core Document (General Obligations); gender mainstreaming (article 3); and human trafficking (article 6).
  • Part 2 concerns public life and civil and political rights, and includes: women at managerial level (article 7).
  • Part 3 covers economic and social rights and contains equal pay (article 11) and violence against women (Article 12).
  • Part 4 includes the implementation of CEDAW in Greenland.

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